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progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination

progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination

Diplomatic progress has been abandoned in favour of war. War is an academic exercise, with academics weighing the blood. Blood weighs more if there exist geopolitical stakes. Gaza is weightless. War weighs more if it's weighed in ordnance which can be converted to orders and sales. This is

digest

⑨ some lines from Contingency & Representation ⑧, before Memory ⑩

⑨ some lines from Contingency & Representation ⑧, before Memory ⑩

In taking up some lines from ⑧, before ⑩, the current post assays brevity, as Dorothy Parker says the soul of lingerie, so is more in keeping with the format of a Digest as I describe it here, where there is an email link, which, just as I encourage you to subscribe

⑧ Contingency & Representation: the coincidence of sign and still, brain and screen, image moving and moving image

⑧ Contingency & Representation: the coincidence of sign and still, brain and screen, image moving and moving image

⑩ Memory & Cinema

⑩ Memory & Cinema

⑦ How Cinema Has Changed Our Minds

⑦ How Cinema Has Changed Our Minds

⑥ indirect proof of the unity of the executive functions we associate with the subject, ego or self

⑥ indirect proof of the unity of the executive functions we associate with the subject, ego or self

⓪ The proof of the infinity of attributes

⓪ The proof of the infinity of attributes

⑤ virtual images

⑤ virtual images

theory

the painter of mental scenery

the painter of mental scenery

The title comes from Bergson's Matter and Memory. (Translation, N.M. Paul and W.S. Palmer for Zone Books, p. 170; the online searchable copy p. 69 (yes, they pack a lot in).) The title recalls Baudelaire's essay "The Painter of Modern Life." (see

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

journal

The Kingdom of Bahrain, مملكة البحرين

The Kingdom of Bahrain, مملكة البحرين

this morning, Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on the meaning of life caught my eye at The Marginalian—marginalia on the search for meaning. A review by Maria Popova of lectures originally given in German, for the first time translated into English, under the sensational title of Yes to

echo chamber? or playing to an audience of 1 (-1 if you count the AI)

echo chamber? or playing to an audience of 1 (-1 if you count the AI)

the birds at Al-Suwaidi Park and other cultural attractions

the birds at Al-Suwaidi Park and other cultural attractions

nightshopping: faces and places

nightshopping: faces and places

Noor Riyadh 2025

Noor Riyadh 2025

the shortest camel ride in the world to the Edge of the World, and beyond

the shortest camel ride in the world to the Edge of the World, and beyond

dinner with chips, Banan Expo & a taste of Noor

dinner with chips, Banan Expo & a taste of Noor

poetry

Political Works

Political Works

bad weather I hear you are having bad weather while here it is cold but settled and Nameed tells me it is not unseasonal he tells me also he has a good manager unreasonal this is my neologism for places reason can go but it is not allowed Nameed is

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency

simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency

From the beginning of the history of the moving image’s development, note that it is moving, from the beginning, the moving image has captured the indetermination we find in nature. That is, the indetermination that is contingent on our material conditions. Freed from those conditions, the moving image, the

contempt

contempt

Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III

Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III

art after genocide, part II

art after genocide, part II

Minus Theatre Riyadh: a visionary project seeking expressions of interest

Minus Theatre Riyadh: a visionary project seeking expressions of interest

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: art after genocide

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: art after genocide

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10